Central Line episode 127: Inside the Monitor - 30-Day Mortality after Anesthesia and Surgery

Daniel Sessler, MD

Dr. Sessler attended medical school at Columbia University, and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published more than 970 full research papers including two-dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet. More than 140 of his papers were accompanied by editorials, and more than 30 were cover articles for major anesthesia journals since 2010. His papers have been cited 70,000 times in peer-reviewed articles per Scopus — making him the world’s most published and cited anesthesiologist (H Index 126). He is among the top 0.01% of cited scientists in any field. He has given more than 475 invited presentations, including more than two-dozen eponymous lectures. Dr. Sessler has been a principal or co-investigator on grants totaling $100 million. He founded and directs the Outcomes Research Consortium. The Consortium is the world’s largest anesthesia research group, and publishes a full paper every other day, for a total of more than 2,000 papers.

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending physician with US Anesthesia Partners-Florida and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.

Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.